Word: counterfeit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Good recent Wallaces are The Clever One, an engrossing tale of counterfeit money, and The Twister, ingenious yarn of English race tracks and Dutch diamond swindles. Old favorites are: A King by Night, The Green Archer, The Door with Seven Locks, The Girl From Scotland Yard, two of which Queen Mary bought at a London three-penny-six-penny shop for the king (TIME, March...
Subway Tickets. Waiting for change at a subway ticket wicket has been done away with in parts of London. An efficient slot machine takes the money, makes the change, prints, dates, issues the ticket; all in exactly one second. Unscrupulous voyagers who feed it counterfeit coins are certain of detection. Electricity tests the. piece for conductivity as it drops in. If it is found wanting, it is angrily spat forth...
Roland Young was selected with un canny precision for this curiously agree able king. He plays with such gentle cun ning that the evening swishes suavely past like a cat in silk pajamas. There are several shrewd helpers and an excellent back stage device to counterfeit the rattles of artillery deploying before the palace in the embattled second act. Mr. Sherwood has contributed much high nonsense, nota bly a bitter game of checkers between the King and a gravely obese footman...
...longer have to cope: beats-mail needing re-addressing or "unknown" bumper-2nd to 4th class cancelling stamp burns-damaged tie sacks clock ("on the" and "off the")-On or off duty decoy-matter mailed to catch crooks graveyard shift-9 p. m. to 5 a. m. green goods-counterfeit money jug (roundhouse)-upright, semicircular case for periodicals logs (trunks)-heavy parcels Mother Hubbard-large sack for paper mail nixie-insufficient address pull-"to pull a case"-to take mail from it reds-registered matter skin the rack-to take bags from bag-rack for dispatch...
...window in a mean street; and police who later raided the so-called Peerless Blade Corporation's factory in Irvington, found the Gillette Co.'s smallest, most serious legend had indeed been defied, grossly. In the Peerless factory they found many hundreds of thousands of counterfeit safety razor blades, modeled on the Gillette design, ready to be wrapped in tasteful green wrappers with the handsome portrait and the two legends. At other hiding places, raiders seized more of the imitations; two million blades in all, which had cost perhaps $10,000 to manufacture out of cheap metal, which...